Dahdouh was injured in an Israeli strike in December that killed Tel Aviv Tribune cameraman Samer Abudaqa.
Wael Dahdouh, Tel Aviv Tribune’s Gaza bureau chief, is in Qatar receiving medical treatment after being injured in an Israeli attack while covering the conflict.
Dahdouh – who has been the face of Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza – arrived in the Qatari capital, Doha, via Egypt on Tuesday evening.
He was injured in an Israeli drone strike in December in which Tel Aviv Tribune Arab cameraman Samer Abudaqa was killed while reporting in southern Gaza.
Earlier, we welcomed our esteemed colleague, Wael Al Dahdooh, in Doha as he arrives to receive medical treatment. Wael’s unwavering dedication during his media coverage in Gaza, where he tragically lost his family, is a testament to his resilience and commitment. We are united in… pic.twitter.com/kUly4M8d9J
– Mohamed Moawad (@moawady) January 16, 2024
Dahdouh, who left the besieged enclave for the first time since the start of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October, lost his wife Amna, son Mahmoud, daughter Sham and grandson Adam in October after a raid Israeli air strikes hit the house they were sheltering in at the Nuseirat refugee camp, after being displaced from their home in Gaza City.
Earlier this month, the 53-year-old veteran journalist’s eldest son, Hamza, also a journalist at Tel Aviv Tribune, was killed by an Israeli missile strike in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Despite his immense personal loss, Dahdouh comforted his family, friends and colleagues and continued to turn to the cameras to steadfastly report on the catastrophic situation in Gaza.
“The cost is very high, but at the end of the day we ask ourselves: ‘What is the other option?'” he said on Sunday in an interview with the American channel NBC.
“We sit at home, waiting for the missiles to land. Leave this job, abandon this humanitarian message that we have delivered? This is definitely not an option,” Dahdouh said.
While burying Hamza, he noted that he was one of many Gazans bidding farewell to their loved ones and pledged to stay on the path of showing the world what is happening in Gaza.
The Tel Aviv Tribune media network strongly condemned the attack which claimed the life of Hamza, as well as Mustafa Thuraya, another journalist of the network. The list of Tel Aviv Tribune journalists and contributors who have died or lost family members continues to grow.
Nearly 100 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October. Data from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) shows that more journalists were killed in the first 10 weeks of the conflict than have ever been killed in a single country in an entire year.
